The Ohio Youth Resilience Collaborative (OYRC), is a supports counties across the state to implement evidence-based substance misuse prevention and mental health promotion programming. This effort is based, in part, upon grant funding through the initial ROTA grant in 2018, and continues, supported, again in part, by present day grant funding efforts, through this ROTA-R project.

In 2018, The Ohio State University embarked on a new initiative to combat the opioid and substance misuse epidemic that is plaguing the state. Initially, our group worked with 9 counties to implement the PROSPER delivery system, an evidence-based model that has proven successful for nearly two decades in eight states across the country, originating from Iowa State University.

OYRC is a collaborative partnership with members from the College of Public Health, College of Education and Human Ecology, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, Ohio State University Extension, and Central State University Extension.

To learn more about the Prevention Programming efforts undertaken by the OYRC, visit The Ohio State University webpage.